Which part of the Allies Force was the Fiji Army during WWII?

In addition, the United States garisoned the island with 10000 well-equipped Marines. A Japanese invasion would not have faced the small. poorly equipped force they found on Wake and Guam immediately after Pearl Harbor. Fiji soldiers fought with the the Allies in the Pacific campaigns that followed. read more

Fiji was targeted by the Japanese, but it was the Americans that arrived on the island in force. After the initial Japanese offensive following Pearl Harbor, Fiji to the southeast of the Solomons found itself along with New Caledonia and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) on the front line of the Pacific War. read more

Had Japan not surrendered when she did, the British Royal Air Force heavy bomber fleet—between 500 and 1000 strong and known in the Pacific as the “Tiger Force”—would have joined the United States Army Air Force in its systematic destruction of every major city and town in all of Japan. read more